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The Tyco coaling station, shown assembled in a stock version at far left, provided most of the parts for Victor D. Heywood's kitbashed facility. He converted the machinery shed to a sandhouse. and vice versa. If you build the model, I Suggest that you wait until the bin has set rights and butt against the rear ones: see fig. 3. The front wall is also scribed styrene. up solidly before filing the notches into the Make it 5'-9" wide to fit between the front slope beams. The beams should be installed parallel to each other, flat against uprights, and 25'-0" high. the bin's slope sheet, and rest solidly under part 27 as a template, and is then bonded the two inner uprights on the bin front. cess material to play with laten The sup- Any disparities can be filled with little the photos thatmy tower doesn't match the port columns were later replaced with squares of styrene. longer pieces from elsewhere in the kit. The back of the tower is gabled, using in place. Incidentally, you may note from drawings and the description exactly. This The sheathing for the skip-hoist tower is because I was playing it by ear and didn't I discovered that with a few modifica- comes next. I used my scribing jig (see my plan ahead sufficiently. There is no prob- tions to the back ofthe bin, parts 14 and 15 article. "A scribing jig for wood, styrene, lem if you follow this narrative, but I could be used to form the corners of the and metal" in the February 1977 issue of thought I should explain. enclosed hoist tower. By making the altera- MR) and made scribings VS" apart on .040" tions seen in fig. 1C, the notches in the back were moved outward at the top and at also be used here.] Ifyou scribe your own in dated the stock structure's dumping pans. the bottom. I made certain that the dimen- HO, use a 12'-3" x 55'-0" piece and scribe Even though it doesn't match, I used more sion between the outsides of the notches across it; then divide it into three long 38"-scribed .040" styrene. You could sculpt was 7'-3" and then assembled the bin. Parts 14 and 15 were modified as shown The two identical pieces are the sides and closer, but I didn't bothen In fact, early in in fig. 2. They were then installed in re- verse order, 14 goirig where 15 should go sides fit against the inside of the front up• , 17'-9" A -•----------s--- 90-0" r 1 i•193:1.: - »*, &-7'-3'- --1 .--1 .......11 1.1----5'-0" Bl - 1 =ER/filler piece i / •+4 rzA .1 .2. -1 11=== · 11 , 1 - parts. The hoist machinery housing was "imagineered." Many of the coaling stations I've seen, including some of the T. W. Snow hoist machinery. On the other hand, I've structures, had a separate shed for the seen a few that didn't, so I thought it was a housing atop the bin and the hoist tower. 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If this housing doesn't seem fancy enough for you, you could trim the corners with thin styrene strips, or use square uprights of thick styrene, adjusting the dimensions accordingly. When the housing had set up pretty well, I.cut the small roof part no. 28 down to 17'-9" long, removed all the knobby things on its bottom side, and then bonded it in place. The station was now taking shape. After consulting the prototype drawings of the real D&RG coaling station, I added short beams under the front of the bin, shimming them with little squares of styrene where necessary to maintain squareness and make it look as if they were actually supporting the bin. I used two of the little pieces (probably no. 26) from the kit, squaring them by scraping. Next I lengthened the two upright col- umns of the hoist tower, using no. 18 pieces. The bin support columns were also garnered from the kit and included no. 18 pieces plus parts cut from the back of the bin earlier. I filed the joints carefully, flooded them with solvent, pressed them tightly closed, and allowed them to dry completely. At this point I decided to spray-paint the partially completed structure. This would tell me how good my joints and patches were. I used boxcar red, a color commonly applied to service structures. Other suitable colors are black, tuscan red, and gray. When the paint had set for a couple of days I filed the new additions to the up- 65 good compromise to place the machinery assumed that the machinery was sup- fake wood grain, and I did file away the casting dimples that abounded on the kit Before attaching the bin roof, we have to styrene. [Evergreen's scribed styrene could plug the gaps in the back that accommo- strips: two 4'-S" wide and one Sig' wide. some wood grain in to make the match the narrow one is the back. Note that the the project I considered filing off all that